From Beyond Tiger Mom Anxiety: Ethnic, Gender and General Generational Differences in Asian American College Access and Choice by OiYan Poon and Ajani Byrd, I learned a lot of how students from Asian American community enters universities and make choice from them. I have perviously read about "tiger mom" and her way of educating her daughters and have some basic sense of Asian American families' attitude toward higher education. This time, I learned from the data and charts in the article and refreshed many of my knowledge. For example, I knew that Asian American families tend to send their children to a top university, without much consideration of its distance. However, I learnt that it's not applied to everyone. For example, a female student mentioned in the article was asked by her parents to stay close to her home, and gender can influence how students make choice in colleges. I'm also surprised that high school counselors is the largest source of information in college choice process, since in China it is common that parents want to decide for their kids by themselves. I think this article leads me to a very interesting topic, and used powerful data and interviews to help us know more about Asian Americans' choice to higher education.
Question: what's the data of college choices in families in Asia?
Amy Chua, "tiger mom"
Reference:
Poon, O., & Byrd, A. (n.d.). Beyond Tiger Mom Anxiety: Ethnic, Gender andGenerational Differences in Asian AmericanCollege Access and Choices.
David Shankbone [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
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